SDLC Insights
Roll-up health score, top actions, and module snapshots across your delivery lifecycle.
What SDLC Insights shows
SDLC Insights is a module-based dashboard for platform and engineering leaders. It groups 34 metrics into six areas that match the left navigation in the app:
- DORA Metrics — deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore
- CI Pipeline Insights — workflow success rate, duration, flakiness, queue wait, cache hit rate
- Collaboration & PR Metrics — review time, PR size, throughput, and review participation
- Security & Risk Metrics — vulnerability exposure, secret scanning, dependency risk
- Governance & Architecture Metrics — policy compliance, architecture drift, documentation coverage
- Financial & Operational Infrastructure — CI minutes, seat utilization, API rate-limit consumption
Open Insights → SDLC Insights → Overview, or open a single module from the sidebar (for example DORA Metrics or CI Pipeline Insights).
Overview page layout
The overview opens with collapsible sections:
- Engineering health score — weighted roll-up from live metrics and benchmark bands (0–100), with a status headline and four summary stats (health score, live metrics, modules at risk, coverage).
- Top actions — up to three prioritized recommendations for the whole workspace.
- Correlated signals — cross-module patterns when the platform detects related issues (for example, elevated change failure rate plus weak CI success).
- Module snapshots — compact chart per module when enough live history exists.
- Explore modules — full module sections with Open module → links to each module page.
Each module page repeats Top actions for this module and a Module summary before the individual metric sections.
What is live in v1
Most metrics need additional integrations or batch jobs. In the current release, six metrics report live values from connected GitHub productivity data when your workspace has PR, CI, and (where applicable) deployment activity in range:
| Metric | Module |
|---|---|
| Deployment Frequency (deployments per day) | DORA Metrics |
| Lead Time for Changes | DORA Metrics |
| Change Failure Rate | DORA Metrics |
| Workflow Success Rate | CI Pipeline Insights |
| PR Time-in-Review | Collaboration & PR Metrics |
| PR Size (Line Delta) | Collaboration & PR Metrics |
Time to Restore Service (MTTR) becomes live when an incident-management integration (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or GoAlert) is connected and productivity ingest has incident data in range. Until then the card shows Connect to unlock.
Change Failure Rate prefers deployment + incident linkage when that data exists; otherwise it uses GitHub Actions CI failure rate as a proxy.
Live after readiness jobs: Branch protection compliance, documentation health, stale branches, inactive/orphaned repos, and Dependabot backlog (readiness proxy) show as Live or Connect to unlock once the governance auditor has run and GitHub is connected. Copilot seat utilization remains Coming soon until GitHub App Copilot seat ingest ships (there is no Copilot card under Integrations yet). Remaining catalog metrics also show Coming soon until their ingest pipelines ship.
Deployment Frequency is shown as deployments per day. It can come from GitHub Deployments or monitoring deployment markers (New Relic / Grafana). Lead Time for Changes still needs GitHub PR ↔ deploy linkage; monitoring alone does not unlock it.
Metric status labels
Each metric section shows a status in the header:
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Live | The platform computed a value from connected integrations for the selected period. Trend and benchmark bands appear when enough history exists. |
| Coming soon | The metric is on the roadmap but not yet available from your connected data. |
| Connect to unlock | A specific integration is required (for example GitHub Actions, PagerDuty, or a readiness scan). Use the integration chips or View integrations to open Workspace → Integrations. |
| Demonstration data | Shown only when the SDLC API is unavailable (for example local preview). Values are illustrative, not from your workspace. |
Benchmark bands use Elite / High / Medium / Low. Open How we compare on the overview or a module page for definitions.
Filters
Use the toolbar above the page to scope the view:
- Time range: 7, 30, 90, or 180 days, or a custom range.
- Department / team: Same Insights filter bar as other Insights pages — apply filters before charts load.
Trend deltas compare the selected window to the prior period of equal length (for example, last 30 days vs the 30 days before that).
Integrations
Locked metrics link to Workspace → Integrations with a return path back to SDLC Insights. Integration chips deep-link to the relevant section (source control, CI/CD, AI tools, or monitoring).
Security and financial GitHub metrics also need optional Insights setup in Connect GitHub (per organization: App permissions, Code security products, and plans). There is no separate GitHub Advanced Security connector.
Typical data sources by module:
| Module | Typical integrations |
|---|---|
| DORA Metrics & CI Pipeline Insights | GitHub, GitHub Actions |
| Collaboration & PR Metrics | GitHub |
| Security & Risk Metrics | GitHub Dependabot and secret scanning after optional Insights setup |
| Governance & Architecture Metrics | GitHub; some signals also need an Agentic Foundation readiness scan |
| Financial & Operational Infrastructure | GitHub Actions billing; Copilot seat utilization is still Coming soon |
| Time to Restore Service (MTTR) | PagerDuty, Opsgenie, GoAlert, or similar incident management |
Charts and drill-down
- Trend charts appear when a live metric has at least two daily data points in the selected period.
- View breakdown opens a drill-down sheet for supported live metrics (contributing PRs or workflow runs).
- Top actions and Correlated signals can jump to the metric section driving the recommendation.
Use SDLC Insights to improve delivery pipelines, security posture, and platform cost. Do not use it to rank individual engineers.
Who sees what
All workspace members with Insights access can open SDLC Insights and most modules. Security & Risk Metrics and Financial & Operational Infrastructure are restricted to workspace admins.
SDLC Insights vs Leadership Dashboard
SDLC Insights is the detailed module catalog (34 metrics, drill-downs, integration unlock paths). The Leadership Dashboard is a portfolio roll-up for executives — readiness health, delivery trends, and AI adoption at a glance. Use both when you need summary vs deep module analysis.